Two Oswego schools have new principals

Oswego, NY -- A Catholic school has a new principal and Oswego High School has a new interim principal to begin the school year.

Joseph Lazarski, who has been a school administrator for years, is the new principal of Trinity Catholic in Oswego.

Lazarski is a resident of Oswego and has been an adjunct professor at the State University College at Oswego. He also has been principal of Ray Middle School in Baldwinsville, assistant principal at Oswego High School and Fulton Junior High and was a teacher for 16 years at Oswego Middle School. He also was an interim associate principal at Roxboro Road Middle School in the North Syracuse school district.

Lazarski has a bachelor's degree in secondary education, a master's in educational administration and a Certificate of Advanced Study in educational administration, all from Oswego State. Trinity Catholic, at 115 E. Fifth St., Oswego, is a pre-kindergarten through grade six school in the Syracuse Roman Catholic diocese.

Brian Hartwell, who has been a house and assistant principal at Oswego High School for the past four years, has been named interim high school principal at Oswego High.

He replaces Patricia Oughterson, who resigned last week after one year as principal.

The Oswego school board voted 6-0 to name Hartwell as interim principal.